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Election officials give Karzai second term as Afghan president

Afghan election officials canceled the second round of a presidential vote slated for Saturday and declared incumbent Hamid Karzai the elected president. The move came after Karzai's only challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew from the vote over concerns widespread corruption and fraud that marked the first round in August would occur again. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the move, calling the troubled Afghan election process the "most difficult the [UN] has ever supported." Times (London), The (11/02), BBC (11/02)